Primary Care Nurse

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Highweek; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in Highweek is seeking a Registered Nurse to deliver high quality primary care services in an integrated healthcare setting. In this role, you will be part of a diverse team providing clinical care to offenders, managing various health conditions and running clinics. You will utilize your clinical knowledge and personal skills to impact the wellbeing of patients in a challenging environment. This position offers great professional satisfaction and the chance to be part of a dedicated healthcare team.

Qualifications

• Must be a qualified registered nurse.
• Demonstrate robust expert clinical skills.
• Provide evidence-based nursing practice.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality primary care services.
• Carry out reception screenings and emergency responses.
• Run planned care clinics and health promotion activities.

Skills

Clinical knowledge

Emergency response

Long term conditions management

Health promotion activities

Job description

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast-paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? This is an excellent opportunity for a Registered Nurse to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient. Our healthcare team has a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients’ future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future. As a registered nurse you will provide high quality primary care services and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. At HMP Channings Wood, we deliver a nurse-led integrated primary care service and operate a specialist practice-based clinical model of care. You will be delivering high quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison, demonstrating robust expert clinical skills and providing evidence-based nursing practice to those in prison. Our registered nurses carry out a range of duties including:

• Reception screening
• Emergency response
• Long term conditions management
• Planned care (e.g. running clinics)
• Enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services
• Health promotion activities

This position isn't just a job; it's a chance to blend your clinical knowledge, personal skills and a commitment to delivering the highest standards of care in an environment that is as rewarding as it is challenging.

About Oxleas

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils, the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.

Our Values

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care